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One Really Annoying Search Result at Google

Went Hot: March 3, 2008 - 7:37 pm
Posted By: MattMcGee 487 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: Google SEO

If a site now has 7-8 sitelinks, shouldn't the old indented listing it used to have go away? How does it benefit the user when the first 9 links of a SERP all point to a single site? Frustrating....

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from onreact 487 days ago #

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Right. This realy sucks big time. I'm always surprised to find the same site so far below.

from incrediblehelp 487 days ago #

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Sure but this has much more to do with a websites internal linking and Google's inability to handle websites linking to the same page 1-2-3 different ways. Really has nothing to do with Sitelinks at all. The problem is totally separate.

from MattMcGee 487 days ago #

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Jaan, you're missing the point I'm making. I'm saying that when site links are present, the ability to get that second listing should go away. So, yes, it does have to do with sitelinks. The sitelinks are my whole point. :-)

from dannysullivan 487 days ago #

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Damn straight -- I've complained about it to Google for years (and don't expect it will change soon). Sitelinks pretty much make having an indented result unnecessary. It's all down to how Google does things, and I get the impression it's not easily fixed. I begged Microsoft not to do the same mistake when they rolled out their sitelinks. Well, so much for that -- happens the same on Live.com.